[Publius6961]

The chain of links from this article is fascinating.
Microsoft claims 40 million copies of VISTA have been distributed, but no clue how many of those are "bundled" with new computers, and how many were sold by people consciously wanting the damned thing.

The resource hogging of VISTA and and its protected content overhead is hardly ever discussed any more, either.

What's happening?

[rlmorel]

I read a great article that was written before Vista shipped by Peter Gutmann titled: A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection

But perhaps more appropriately, it is described by Mr. Gutmann as follows: The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history

[Still Thinking]

Well, and does “distributed” include “shipped to Dell, Gateway and other resellers because we leaned on them, and sitting on their shelves, implying nothing about actual sales to users”?

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

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